On 7/14/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AMD Opteron workstations (At least, SUN doesn't and we couldn't find any
Sun asbsolutely does. Just one example that might be of interest: http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=133232&PROMO > > A few days ago his primary hard disk crashed (MAXTOR = SHIT). No > worries, he thought, just boot off of the second mirrored drive and get > a RMA back from Dell. He reboots only to find that Dell failed to set > up the mirrored drive and the second drive was only sitting out there > unused. He reinstalls Windows on the second good disk and attempts to > read the data off of the bad one, which just results in infinite CHKDSK > operations. He begins pondering the thousand+dollars in data recovery > costs (as a self-employed consultant, his data is priceless) Umm... if he is working as a consultant, and has priceless data, and is not backing it up, I don't think I would want to hire him. I sure hope he is telling his clients to do a better job backing up their data more effectively than trusting that dell turned on mirroring! Besides, that is not a backup.
